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The day after Confederate Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's victory at Cedar Mountain, he stepped out of his tent and saw a Union prisoner of war trying to pluck hairs from the general's horse, Little Sorrel. "My friend," Jackson asked his enemy, "why are you tearing the hair out of my horse's tail?" "Ah, general," the prisoner explained, "each one of these hairs is worth a dollar in New York." Jackson had indeed earned military celebrity status, making himself a subject of fascination and admiration on both sides of the Civil War's battle lines. And both the public myths and private truths are brilliantly...

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